A very quick solution to the age old cry of ‘whats for dinner mum?’ (Or dad, for that matter!) Get your thermomixing on with this speedy solution.
One of the classics, this Italian widely known recipe is also widely misunderstood. There is no cream in proper carbonara, but do we care? No we do not. We have a more authentic carbonara coming to the Insider Club soon thanks to Sophie Budd, but again, hers is not authentic as we used farfalle pasta. SO really, pasta is so amazing regardless of what it is called, whether we are ticking all the cultural boxes or not and you know....just enjoy. It is delicious.
Need
- 300 - 400 Grams Easy Homemade Pasta long or short pasta of choice (100g per serving is an average!) Recipe
- 50 Grams parmesan cheese cubed
- 1 large brown onion, quartered (approx 200g)
- 4 cloves garlic
- 300 Grams speck or bacon, cubed
- 200 Grams Swiss brown mushrooms, sliced
- 300 Grams liquid chicken stock OR equivalent water and stock paste of choice
- 2 Tablespoons Umami Paste Recipe
- 200 Grams cream
- pink salt flakes to taste (depends on your saltiness of your speck) BUY
- Cracked black pepper to taste
- A few italian parsley leaves and or basil leaves to garnish
Do
- 1
Cook pasta as package directs to just al dente. Keep hot. If making your own pasta it will literally need about a 5 minute cook, so get the sauce ready first.
- 2
Place Parmesan into Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 8. Remove from bowl and set aside.
- 3
Place onion and garlic into Thermomix bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 4.
- 4
Scrape down sides of bowl and add speck and mushrooms. Saute 10 min/Varoma/Reverse/speed 2.
- 5
Add stock, Umami paste, and cooked pasta. Cook 4 min/100°C/Reverse/speed soft.
- 6
Add cream, seasoning and herbs. Serve immediately with grated parmesan over.
Served with
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
